Cigarette-making apparatus.



PATENTED MAR. 19, 1907.

W. I. NOWITZKY. CIGARETTE MAKING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 7. 1906.

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TINTTE STATES PATENT OEETGE.

WILHELM FRIEDRICH N OWITZKY, OF RIGA, EUSSIA, ASSIGNOR TO HULSEN- FABRIK A.

JAUNSEM, (ANDREAS JAUNSEM.)

CIGARETTE-MAKING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 19,1907.

Application filed July '7. 1906- Seriafi. No. 325.185.

T0 01, whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILHELM FRIEDRICH NowITzKY, a subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at Riga, in the Province of Livonia, Russia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Cigarette-Making Apparatus and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in cigarette-making apparatus; and the object of my invention is to produce a simple handoperated a paratus in which by the reciprocation of a base-plate the opening and closing of a mold, the removal of a paper tube from a container, the pressing of the tobacco to form a core, the mounting of the tube on a carrier, the ramming of the core of tobacco into the tube, and the removal of the complete cigarette are effected in a continuous cycle.

With this object in view my invention consists in the construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the hopper from which the papertubes are fed. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of said hopper on the line 2 2 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the com plete apparatus. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the reciprocating base-plate. Fig. 6 is an end elevation of the entire apparatus, and Fig. 7 is a cross-section taken just in front of the operating-handle with the tobacco-receptacle removed.

1 represents an upright U-shaped bracket on which the apparatus is supported. On one side this bracket is extended, forming an extension bent to receive the screw 2, which serves to secure the apparatus to a bench or table. To the upper edges of the bracketarms 1 are secured undercut rails 3, between which rails and the upper ends of the bracket is slidably mounted the reciprocating baseplate 4, provided with slots A, B, O, and D.

On the lower side of the base-plate 4 is secured a rack-bar 5, which meshes with a pinion 6, carried by a shaft mounted in bearings in the bracket and provided with a crankhandle 7. In the slot D near the right-hand end of the baseplate 4 is secured the downturned end of a plunger 8, which serves to force the rod of tobacco into the paper tube and to eject the finished cigarette. The plunger 8 is adjustably secured in the slot D both vertically and horizontally, so that it may exactly register with the space in which the rod of tobacco is formed.

Near the left-hand end of the base-plate 4 are secured the separator 9 and the tubepusher 10, the latter bein adjustably attached to the lower side oi the plate 4 by means of the screw 1 1, so that it may be pro erly adjusted according to the length of t e paper tube. On the base-plate 4 opposite the slot C is fprovided a feather 12 for a purpose hereina ter described.

36 represents a downwardly-extending projection on the bar 13, which bar is mounted on the rod 33. The projection 36 is adapted to engage at times with the slot 0 and with the feather 12. To the bar 13 is connected the right angled divider 14, adapted, as shown in Fig. 3, to successively feed the tubes one by one into the proper position to be acted on by the pusher 10. The vertical portion of the divider 14 is formed with longitudinal slots 39, through which, into the bar 13, pass the screws 38, so that the divider 14 may be adjusted on the bar 13 to control its height to correspond with the size of the paper tubes.

The divider 14 works in a cut-away portion 34 of the hopper 25, into which the finished empty paper tubes are placed. This is provided with ears 26, in which is pivoted a wire provided with bent ends 29, extending across the bottom of the hopper. To this wire is attached a downwardly-extending T- shaped bracket 27, terminating in a horizontal portion extending longitudinally across the hopper to hold the position. The part 27 is provided with a curved lever 28, adapted to rest in the slot A of the base-plate 4.

33 represents a rod pivotally mounted in an extension of the hopper, which supports the divider 14 and the bar 13. Springs 32 run from the ends of this rod 33 to a rod 30, which works in slots 31 parallel to the sloping bottom of the hopper. The tendency of the springs 32 is to bring the parts into the position shown in Fig. 2; but this under ordinary circumstances is resisted by the lever 28 unpaper tubes in proper ICC til said lever comes opposite the side extension A of the slot A, whereupon the parts assume the position shown in Fig. 3.

Mounted transversely of the supportingbracket above the plates 3 is a plate 15, provided with an upwardly-extending flange 15 Extending longitudinally of this plate and secured to its upper side is the stationary die 16 of the tobacco-mold, provided with an extended blade 17. Movably mounted on the plate 15 is the movable die 18, which, together with the stationary die 16, serves to compress the tobacco into a rod, the parts 16 and 18 being provided with similarly-shaped but oppositely-arranged recesses, so that a rod of tobacco may be formed between them.

The reciprocating movement of the die 18 is produced by means of a roller 19, attached to a bolt extending downwardly from the die 18, said roller engaging in the slot B of the base-plate 4. It is evident that a reciprocation of the base-plate back and forth will cause a reciprocation of the die 18 in a direction at right angles thereto on the plate 15.

A bracket 40, secured to the ends of the main supporting-bracket, carries the receptacle 41 for the loose tobacco, which is provided with a slot (not shown) arranged to deliver tobacco into the space 35 bet'weenthe parts 16 and 18 when they are separated from each other.

20 represents a cylindrical tube mounted in the flange 15*, which is provided with a downwardlytapering end, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and as shown in Fig. 4, so that the paper tube may be easily slipped over said end.

21 represents a pair of levers loosely pivoted to the plate 15 underneath the flange 15 and each of these levers is provided with a rubber roller 22, projecting upwardly into the plane of the tube-cylinder 20. Springs 23 normally press these rollers against the end of the tube-cylinder 20, and the pressure of these rollers on the cylinder can be controlled by regulating the pressure of the springs 23, which are attached to a plate moved by the bolt 24.

The operation is as follows: The handle 7 is moved in the direction of the arrow from the position shown in Fig. 1 until it assumes the position E. The lever 28 by this time has come opposite the extension A of the groove A, and the parts of the tube-feeding apparatus assume the position shown in Fig. 3. When the handle 7 is brought to the position E, the extension 36 of the bar 13 enters the slot C and tips said bar, the divider 14 receding from the cut-away part 34 in the bottom of the hopper, thus allowing one tube to pass freely, which tube is caught and held in its proper position by means of the part 27 and the projecting part 37 of the divider. The lower tube is then exactly opposite the tip of the cylinder 20. When the handle is brought into the position E, be plunger 8 is withdrawn from its position between the parts 16 and 18, and the projection 36 of the bar 13 leaves the slot C, releases itself from the feather 12, and brings the bar 13 into its vertical position, throwing the divider 14 into the position shown in Fig. 3 and preventing the further feeding of the paper tubes. On a further movement of the handle to the position E the separator t), which is provided with a spear-head, strikes the lovers 21 and moves the rollers 22 out of contact with the tube-cylinder 20. At the same time the tube-pusher 10 pushes the paper tube onto the tip of the cylinder 20, and the roller 1%), guided by the slot B in the base-plate 1, moves the movable die 18 away from the stationary die 16, leaving a space 35, into which the tobacco falls. hen the handle has reached its original position, as shown in Fi 1, the tube is placed on the space 35 is filled with. tobacco, and the motion of the handle is reversed. When the handle in its reversed movement reaches the position E, the tobacco is pressed into a rod between the parts 18 and 16. At the same time the pusher 10 is moved back and the separator 9 partially withdrawn, whereuponthe rollers 22 under the action of the springs 23 hold the tube tightly on the tip of the cylinder 20. When the handle in its backward movement has reached the position E, the lever 36 of the bar 13 slides along the feather 12, and thus prevents the premature feeding of the tubes. At the same time the plunger 8 moves into the opening left between the dies 18 and 16. Finally, on. the backward movement of the handle to the position E the plunger 8 moves into the tubecylinder 20, forcing the rod of tobacco into the prepared paper tube and pushes the completed cigarette away from the tip of the cylinder, freeing it from the pressure of the rollers 22. At the same time the lever 28, reaching part A of the slot A, moves back the receiver 27, leaving an open space, so that the further movement of the handle 7 to its original position, moving the plunger still farther, will force the completed cigarette backward into such a position that it falls out of the machine.

I have described and shown my invention adapted to form cylindrical cigarettes; but of course cigarettes of any desired shape could be made by simply changing the shape of the various parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

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1. In a cigarette-making apparatus, the

combination of a hopper adapted to contain paper tubes, a tube-cylinder, feeding means for bringing said tubes one by one opposite to said cylinder, a slotted reciprocating plate, connections whereby the movement of IOC said plate operatessaid ,fceding: means, a tube-pusher on said plate adapted to push the fed tube onto the end of said cylinder, means for holding the tube onto the end of said cylinder, disengaging means carried by said plate operating to disengage said holding means from said tube, and means for operating said plate, substantially as described.

2. In a cigarette-making apparatus, the combination of a tube-cylinder, a hopper for containing paper tubes, means for feeding said tubes one by one to a position opposite said cylinder, spring-controlled levers provided with rollers adapted to hold the fed tube on the tube-cylinder, a slotted reciprocating plate, a tube-pusher on said plate, a separator to disengage said rollers from said paper tube, means for operating said plate, and connections whereby the movement -of said plate operates said feeding means, substantially as described.

3. In a cigarette-making apparatus, the combination of a tube-cylinder, a hopper adapted to contain paper tubes, means for feeding said tubes one by one to a position opposite to said cylinder, means for forcing the fed tube onto the end of said cylinder, movable dies having recesses adapted by their movement to form a rod of tobacco, a plunger for forcing said rod into said tube through said cylinder, a slotted reciprocating plate, said plunger being carried by said plate, means for reciprocating said plate, and connections whereby the movement of said plate effects the operations above indicated, substantially as described.

4. In a cigarette-making apparatus, the combination of a'hopper adapted to contain paper tubes, a fixed plate carrying atubecylinder, means for feeding said tubes one by one into a position opposite said cylinder, spring-controlled rollers adapted to hold said tube on said cylinder, recessed dies located on saidstationary plate, one fixed and one movable, and adapted to form a rod of tobacco in line with said tube-cylinder, a slotted reciprocating plate, a plunger carried by said plate in line with said tube-cylinder, means for operating said plate, and connec tions whereby the movement of said plate opens and closes the dies, feeds the paper tubes one by one from a hopper, forms a tobacco-rod, mounts the feed-tube on a tubecylinder, forces the tobacco-rod into said tube, and removes the completed cigarette, substantially as described.

5. In a cigarette-making apparatus, the combination of a tube-cylinder, means for feeding a paper tube onto the end of said cylinder, spring-controlled rollers for holding said tube on said cylinder, a slotted reciproeating plate, a separator carried by said plate and adapted to disengage said rollers from the end of the paper tube, and means for operating said plate, substantially as described.

6. In a cigarette-making apparatus, the combination of a hopper adapted to contain paper tubes, and means for feeding said tubes one by one from said hopper, said means including a pivoted divider having a downwardly-projecting extension, a slotted plate, means for reciprocating said plate, said plate being also provided with a feather arranged in proximity to one of the slots of said reciprocating plate so arranged as to allow said extension to enter said slot on movement in one direction, and to prevent said extension from entering said slot on the reverse movement, substantially as described.

7. In a cigarette making apparatus, the combination of a hopper adapted to contain paper tubes, a pivoted rod adapted to move in slots in said hopper, a wire having bent ends supported on said hopper, the ends of said wire engaging said rod, a retainer mounted on said wire and provided with a projecting lever, springs attached to the movable rod in said hopper, a pivoted divider provided with a downwardly-projecting extension, a slotted plate provided with one slot for governing the movement of said lever, and with another slot and feather for governing the movement of said divider, and means for reciprocating said plate, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILHELM FRIEDRICH NOWITZKY. V

Witnesses SOREN HANSEN, A. KUTT. 

